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Theme 1: How can we ensure that health, food systems, and sustainable agricultural systems mutually reinforce one another to better support people’s livelihoods and well-being?

- Agrobiodiversity and seeds in changing food systems- Challenges for the transformative “new science of sustainable food systems”- Challenges in yam systems for improved livelihoods in West Africa- Citizen-driven Water Management for Healthy Lives and Sustainable Agriculture- Commercializing Agriculture–Reorganizing Gender- Commoditization, employment and the question of land: How does access to land shape employment conditions in the rural labour market?- Enhancing utilization of Climate Services for strengthening livelihoods in low and middle income countries- Impacting beyond niches: exploring approaches for up- and out-scaling innovations in mountains areas- Novel Fertilizers – for Nutrition-Sensitive and Climate-Smart Agriculture- Organic farming for improved livelihoods, health and food security in tropical smallholder farming communities- Research uptake pathways to evidence-based policy and practice – a LANSA experience

Theme 2: How can we deal with environmental sustainability while achieving economic development?

- Applying a nexus approach to sustainable management and use of natural resources in a context of institutional transformation. Evidence from Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan)- Evidence for policy: Approaches for effectively supporting policymaking towards sustainable development- Integrating ecosystems, water resources and energy to manage wastewater and improve the quality of life in urban areas- Understanding and transforming drivers of land systems in a globalized world- Securing and enhancing access to land for smallholders in shifting cultivation systems

Theme 3: How can we promote inclusive, equitable, and peaceful societies?

- Behavioural “fixes” for inclusive business: creating the human “software” to achieving SDGs?- Being defined by past location: displaced communities, conflict memories, and the right to return- Conflict transformation and peace-building research contributions to Sustainable Development Goal 16- “Extending social health protection systems in low and middle income countries”: the role of partnerships between NGOs and research institutions- Making Trade More Inclusive- The Micro-Politics of Gender and Violent Conflict- The role of norms in peace processes

Theme 4: How can we ensure that partnerships are transformative?

- Addressing multiple SDGs: The relevance of multisectoral approaches for sustainable development- Alternative knowledge production for social transformation- Building transformative partnerships between health services and communities as a means to advancing the Agenda towards Sustainable Development: A pathway foward- Doing transformative research for sustainable development ‘at scale’: Learnings from Future Earth and other global research efforts- Increasing equality in partnerships – views from the field, from policy makers and from funders- Partnerships for producing and effectively using knowledge that advances transformations towards sustainable development- Scientists are from Mars, Policymakers are from Venus: How to Build Transformational Partnerships in a World of Conflicting Priorities- Testing the Research Fairness Initiative (RFI) as a tool for fair, efficient and effective research partnerships- Towards Transformative Partnerships for Sustainable Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Cases from South Africa and Myanmar- Transformative partnerships by participatory modeling- Uses of evidence in contested contexts. Political? Technical? Transformative?

Keynote speakers

David ChiribogaEsther TurnhoutDina PomeranzErle EllisKoko Warner

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